Word: switzerland
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...late '70s, Davis' pal Quincy Jones began urging him to revisit the Evans sessions, but for 15 years Davis declined. Then, at age 65, perhaps sensing that his time was running out, he relented. At the famous jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, Jones assembled the original Evans scores and led the orchestra with Davis on solo. The result, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, is Davis' final live album. Recorded only weeks before he died, it is an excruciatingly openhearted struggle by a master defiantly raging against the dying of the light...
...Cellnet, a cellular-phone firm that will team up with British Telecom to work on Murdoch's electronic superhighway. At the same time, Murdoch is joining forces with German TV broadcaster PRO 7 to provide and manage satellite channels reaching 100 million potential viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, starting next January...
Gorbachev's prestige has helped attract Green Cross board members such as Javier Perez de Cuellar, former Secretary-General of the U.N., and former Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu. Other trustees range from astronomer Carl Sagan to Rene Felber, the former President of Switzerland. Ultimately, Gorbachev envisions a network of local, national, regional and international offices that will, as he puts it, "enhance and amplify" the work of other environmental groups. He also sees this network as a means of changing the "values" of human societies...
...might have walked away a rich if restless man, since investigators could not untangle his schemes without some inside help. But they found their songbird last month, when Gardini's successor at Montedison was arrested and extradited from Switzerland. Giuseppe Garofano was brought back to Milan and immediately began giving investigators a detailed rundown of the company's double bookkeeping and multimillion-dollar payoffs to politicians. He gave them enough to issue warrants for the arrest of five top Ferruzzi executives, including Gardini...
Scan a list of the world's 101 riches people (one such list was recently published in Fortune magazine), and only about one quarter of them are U.S. residents, Japan, Hong Kong, Great Britain, Mexico, Germany and Switzerland are all competitive repositories of wealth and they're gaining...